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1896 and 1996: How Two Supreme Court Acts Transformed Bahamian Law

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1896 and 1996: How Two Supreme Court Acts Transformed Bahamian Law

The Bahamas Supreme Court Act of 1896 represents one of the most significant pieces of legislation in the development of our modern legal system. By establishing a unified Supreme Court Continue Reading

Posted On : February 3, 2026 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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Azure a Fess Or Issuing from the Dexter… Nassau 1972

Once you know what it means, it becomes poetry of an iambic pentameter that upon uttering can summon every will and valour. Azure a Fess Or Issuing from the Dexter Continue Reading

Posted On : January 30, 2026 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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He Didn’t Like Politics But Politics Liked Him: The Richest Bahamian Dies, 1994

When Charles Trevor Kelly, C.B.E., was laid to rest in St. Anne’s Cemetery, Fox Hill, in June 1994, The Bahama Journal’s obituary painted a portrait of humble success: the multimillionaire Continue Reading

Posted On : January 29, 2026 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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The Woman in that Famous Photo With A Young Lynden Pindling: Sylvia North Treco (1930-2016)

There is a rather famous photograph in Bahamian political history: a young Lynden Pindling stands with another young man and a strikingly beautiful young woman in front of the old Continue Reading

Posted On : January 27, 2026 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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Governor Clifford Orchestrates Goodman’s Bay To Prospect Land Grab for Bay Street Oligarchs 1937

By the 1930s, quite a lot of the land comprising the western district of New Providence was crown land. Vast parcels that had been the subject of old grants—including the Continue Reading

Posted On : January 27, 2026 Published By : The Bahamianologist

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